Off the Shuttle: Tatted Snowflakes

Off the Shuttle: tatted pillowcase edging

I think this edging gives the effect of a row of red and white flowers on a border of green.
The pattern is 2 connected rows of "Leaf Braid" from Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns. She says it's the easiest pattern in the book and probably the most useful. It's all rings. The green is size 20 Flora thread in color 265 and the variegated red and white is size 20 Flora in 57. Both are from some old stash since Flora thread is not being made any more.

Happy Holidays!

Off the Shuttle: Tatted Edging

I got some new Lizbeth threads recently. This tatted pillowcase edging was done in one of the new colors, Scottish Thistle. It's a pattern I've used several times. I like it because it's not very frilly. Most of the picots are just for joining, rather than decorative. The pattern is "Handkerchief Edging or Pillow Edging No. 11" on pgs. 33-34, in The Craft of Tatting by Bessie M. Attenborough (Bell & Hyman Ltd., 1972).

Knit Night 2012

Photos of this year's Knit Night donations are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/104631094803018833506/KnitNight2012

Quilts!

I attended the 2012 Heritage Day Quilt Auction sponsored by the Capital Quilters Guild at Historic Oak View Park in Raleigh, NC, and for the first time I participated as a bidder. This year the proceeds benefited both the Guild and North Carolina Coastal Pines Girl Scout Council (where my daughter works). Unbelievably, I won 3 of the 5 quilts I bid on! Here are photos of the quilts. My photos do not do them justice...they are so beautiful.

This one is "Color Karma" a 34" by 34" wall hanging in the Amish quilt style:

This one is "Hollyhocks" a 51" by 60" quilt that I also plan to hang. This is the front view:

This is what the backing fabric looks like:

This one is called "Lotsa Dots" and is 62" by 82". It's hard to tell by the photo, but every piece of fabric has a pattern of dots.

More dots are on the reversible back of the quilt. I plan to use the quilt on my bed. The colors will really brighten up the room.

Off the Needles: Amy's Shawlette

Here's what I made for my daughter out the the yarn she brought back from her trip to Alaska last year. The pattern is adapted from a pattern I found on Ravelry. The original pattern was in garter stitch and required some frogging to finish it. I changed to stockinette and made some other changes because I really can't see the point of knitting something and then unknitting a substantial portion...that's just crazy. The edging is about all it has in common with the original pattern. The yarn is wool and, although bought in Alaska, was made in Chile.